Just outside Södertalje is a Scania truck factory. There is a massive rail interchange associated with it, though I’m not sure they still use rail as a major transport for their finished vehicles.
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Södertalje
Torekällbergets museum runestone
As well as the runestone by the station there is one in Torekällbergets museum.
Torekällbergets museum
At the top of Bjorn Borg Promenade in Södertalje is Torekällbergets museum, a baby Skansen.
Södertalje runestone
In a little park outside Södertalje station is another runestone, this one larger than most of the others I have seen, so I didn’t recognise it at first. “Holmfastr (and) Hróðelfr had the runes carved in memory of … … Ingifastr, their sons. They were in the east(?). And Œpir carved.”
Södertalje
The town of Södertalje lies some 30km to the south of Stockholm. There is a canal passing through the town, joining Lake Mälaren with the Baltic Sea. It is also the home town of Björn Borg. The town itself is a fairly small and unexciting place, though some of the views along the canal give it a […]